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Life
Thomas was born in 1614 in Trancoso, Beira Province, Portugal, during the period of the Iberian Union. His father was from the noble family of Pinheira and his mother from the Jewish Fonseca. He was also a relative of the converso or marrano poet Miguel de Silveyra. Thomas left Trancoso to live with his uncle in Madrid, Spain. While there, he studied at the Jesuit Imperial College, where he learned Latin and Greek.
De Pinedo fled to the Dutch Republic to escape the Inquisition. (Miguel was similarly forced to flee to the Kingdom of Naples.) While praising his education and avoiding censure of Christianity itself, he pointedly criticized the Inquisition and its supporters, once writing "I am ashamed and reproach myself for having been useful to such Christians". He completed his edition of Stephan's Ethnica with Latin translation and commentary while in Amsterdam. He dedicated the work to Gaspar Ibáñez de Segovia, historian, bibliophile, and consort marquis of Mondejar.
He died on 13 November 1679 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. De Segovia later wrote to the converso poet Miguel de Barrios of his regret that De Pinedo had died without converting from Judaism to Christianity.
Works
De Pinedo is best known for his edition of Stephan of Byzantium's Ethnica, which he provided in Greek with a parallel Latin translation and commentary, including numerous citations from Jewish historians and travelers such as Josephus and Benjamin of Tudela.
- Stephan (1678), Περὶ Πόλεων [De Urbibus, On Cities] (in Ancient Greek), Amsterdam: Jacobus de Jonghe.
References
Citations
- ^ Kayserling (1858), p. 193.
- ^ Scholberg (1971).
- Kayserling (1858), pp. 195–196.
- Kayserling (1858), p. 197.
- Kayserling (1858), p. 195.
- Kayserling (1858), p. 201.
- Kayserling (1858), p. 199.
Bibliography
- Kayserling, Meyer (1858), "Thomas de Pinedo: Eine Biographie" [Thomas de Pinedo: A Biography], Monatsschift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums [Monthly Magazine on the History and Study of Judaism] (in German), vol. 7, pt. 5, Leipzig: Heinrich Hunger, pp. 191–202, JSTOR 44382922.
- Scholberg, Kenneth R. (1971), "Miguel de Silveyra", Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem: Keter Publishing.